| Outstanding issues for 2.0 release: |
| -------------------- |
| 1. Fix multi-level coherence/dma issues |
| 2. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails |
| 3. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages |
| 4. Better statistics for the caches. |
| 5. Clean up more SimObject parameter stuff |
| 6. Checkpoint/switchover testing |
| 7. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin |
| 8. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin |
| 9. Make repository public |
| 10. Testing |
| 11. Validation |
| 12. Testing |
| |
| May 16, 2007: m5_2.0_beta3 |
| -------------------- |
| New Features |
| 1. Some support for SPARC full-system simulation |
| 2. Reworking of trace facitities (parameter names changed, variadic macros |
| removed) |
| 3. Scons script cleanups |
| 4. Some support for compiling with Intel CC |
| |
| Bug fixes since beta 2: |
| 1. Many SPARC linux syscall emulation support fixes |
| 2. Multiprocessor linux boot using the detailed O3 CPU module |
| 3. Workaround for DMA bug (final solution to be released with 2.0f) |
| 4. Simulator performance and memory leak fixes |
| 5. Fixed issue where console could stop printing in ALPHA_FS |
| 6. Fix issues with remote debugging |
| 7. Several compile fixes, including gcc 4.1 |
| 8. Many other minor fixes and enhancements |
| |
| Nov. 28, 2006: m5_2.0_beta2 |
| -------------------- |
| Bug fixes since beta 1: |
| 1. Many cache issues resolved |
| 2. Uni-coherence fixes in full-system |
| 3. LL/SC Support |
| 4. Draining/Switchover |
| 5. Functional Accesses |
| 6. Bus now has real timing |
| 7. Single config file for all SpecCPU2000 benchmarks |
| 8. Several other minor bug fixes and enhancements |
| |
| Aug. 25, 2006: m5_2.0_beta patch 1 |
| -------------------- |
| Handful of minor bug fixes for m5_2.0_beta, |
| along with a few new regression tests. |
| |
| Aug. 15, 2006: m5_2.0_beta |
| -------------------- |
| Major update to M5 including: |
| - New CPU model |
| - New memory system |
| - More extensive python integration |
| - Preliminary syscall emulation support for MIPS and SPARC |
| This is a *beta* release, meaning that some features are not complete, |
| and some features from M5 1.X aren't currently supported (e.g., MP |
| coherence). We are working to address these limitations and hope to |
| have a complete 2.0 release soon. |
| |
| Oct. 8, 2005: m5_1.1 |
| -------------------- |
| Update release for IOSCA workshop mini-tutorial. New features include: |
| - Preliminary FreeBSD support |
| - Integration of regression tests into scons build framework |
| - Several bug fixes and better compatibility for Cygwin hosts |
| - Major cleanup of Alpha system code (console, PAL, etc.) to make |
| it easier for others to build/modify |
| - Fixes to enable compilation under g++ 4.0 |
| - Numerous minor bug fixes |
| |
| June 10, 2005: m5_1.0_web |
| ------------------------- |
| The 1.0 release posted on Sourceforge after the ISCA tutorial contains |
| just a few very minor fixes relative to the CD. |
| |
| June 5, 2005: m5_1.0_tutorial |
| ----------------------------- |
| First non-beta release. This release was on the CD distributed at the |
| ISCA tutorial. Major enhancements relative to beta releases include |
| Linux support and Python-based configuration language. |
| |
| June 17, 2004: m5_1.0_beta2 |
| --------------------------- |
| Stealth-mode beta bug-fix update, not widely advertised. |
| |
| Oct. 17, 2003: m5_1.0_beta1 |
| --------------------------- |
| Early beta release. |
